Odisha: Accessibility: Physical infra, digital inclusion on agenda for Bhubaneswar Smart City
Bhubaneswar: As part of its Bhubaneswar Urban Lecture Series, Bhubaneswar Development Authority in collaboration with well-known social service organisation Swabhiman, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd today organised a day-long workshop “Smart Accessibility Solutions in Bhubaneswar’’ to discuss on universal design and digital inclusion. While on the theme of Smart accessibility in Smart […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Accessibility a basic right of PWDs
By Express News Service | Published: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | Last Updated: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | A+A A- | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a section of the society – the Persons with Disabilities – have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Efforts to make smart city disabled-friendly
A speaker at the seminar in Guwahati on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, March 24: Dispur today requested the organisations working for people with disabilities to prepare a blueprint on necessary interventions required to make Guwahati a differently-abled people friendly smart city. The request was made by additional chief secretary Ravi Capoor in a roundtable seminar […]
Making SMART Cities Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
on: March 24, 2017In: Community Persons with disabilities have often been neglected and excluded from the various plans, schemes and campaigns of the Government. A case in point is the SMART Cities Mission that has hardly any mention of accessibility for persons with disabilities. More importantly, with technology being the cornerstone of the SMART Cities initiative, the already existing […]
Accessible Smart Cities Initiative
By Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos on 6 February 2017. Posted in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities G3ict – the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies – and World Enabled teamed up to create the Defining Accessible Smart Cities Initiative. Sponsored by Microsoft, the initiative’s goal is to increase awareness of the role that accessible technology […]
Urban infrastructures should be visually-impaired- friendly
The city planners underscored the need for installation of visually-impaired-friendly infrastructure in urban development projects. Participating in a workshop held at Bhubaneswar, the Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary � Dr. R. Balakrishnan said “there should be ramps, machines and smart features for visually challenged persons in all new infrastructure projects to come up in the city […]
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